188: Chapter 188: About the incident where I accidentally subdued a big boss during a mission and made him my adopted daughter.

Xing Yaoyan: O_o?

Mom... Me?

She snapped her eyes open and looked toward where the girl had originally been sitting in a daze, but the spot was already empty.

Looking down again, Xing Yaoyan saw the little attachment on her waist.

The little girl was hugging her tightly, looking up at her excitedly. Her amber eyes blinked, and one could vaguely see tears hidden deep within them.

"Little one... did you just call me Mom?"

Hearing her uncertain words, the little girl seemed to get anxious on the spot.

Her cute face scrunched up instantly, and her voice actually began to tremble, carrying a hint of a sob.

"Mom Xing Yaoyan, don't you remember me... It's me, Taotie..."

Tao... Taotie? Is that also a species of Star Beast?

And... how does she know my real name!

For a moment, Xing Yaoyan didn't know how to respond to this ominous being who had suddenly called her Mom.

She was just a Heaven-Swallowing Star Wolf who had only been in this world for a short while, surviving from the One-Mark to the Four Marks. How could she possibly have a daughter! This was too ridiculous!

"No... no... you're not my mom... Mom would definitely recognize me! You're a baddie! Why is the aura on your body exactly the same as my mom's! You deserve to die..."

Oh no!

Xing Yaoyan's heart jumped in shock.

To stay alive, she had to accept it even if she didn't want to!

Thinking of this, the young woman's expression suddenly shifted. With a somewhat stiff smile, she reached out and pinched the little girl's cheek.

"How could I not recognize my little Taotie? Why haven't you been eating well while I was away... You've gotten so thin from hunger..."

Selectively ignoring the mountain of food behind Taotie, Xing Yaoyan spoke randomly in a panic, saying whatever came to mind. As long as she could survive, anything went.

"That's right, that's right! Mom used to like pinching my face, and she always liked to say I'd 'gotten thin from hunger.' You are my mom!"

The terrifying aura gradually emanating from the little girl vanished once more. She suddenly pressed her face deep against the young woman's chest, a happy smile appearing on her face.

What she didn't know was that at this moment, Xing Yaoyan didn't feel the slightest bit of joy at meeting an acquaintance; her heart was filled entirely with the relief of having escaped death once again.

Haha... I actually hit the mark by accident... It seems my luck is pretty good...

"Um, little Taotie... weren't there two other people here before..."

"Mom, do you know them? They suddenly came in and disturbed my meal just now, so I was going to teach them a lesson. But that human among them used some kind of trick to instantly disappear with the Star Beast beside him. They probably hid in another space temporarily."

The little girl blinked her eyes and spoke with an innocent face.

"Then this blood..."

"Oh... these are some blind fools who came in and disturbed me when I first arrived, so I finished them off..."

Suddenly, as if she had thought of something, her little face fell.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Mom Xing Yaoyan. I know you told me before not to kill the innocent, so the ones I killed were all guys with blood auras on them. I only scared away the people who passed by later. So, please don't hate me, okay..."

"Okay..."

In her heart, Xing Yaoyan had a rough guess about the cause and effect of the whole situation.

First, this little girl must have snuck into this VIP room for some reason. Coincidentally, there were people here at the time, so she killed them directly. The people who were allowed to escape later must have spread the news, causing panic. Meanwhile, Qian Mo and Chi Xie heard the commotion and came in to investigate. Finding themselves outmatched, they pressed the distress alarm and Qian Mo quickly pulled Chi Xie into his duel space...

But now, there were still some very serious problems that hadn't been solved.

Why did she come here to eat, and... was that slovenly man outside with her, and did they have any other companions...

Though her mind was racing, Xing Yaoyan remained very calm on the surface. She asked Taotie in a conversational tone:

"Before I came in just now, I saw a man outside who could partially beastify. He must have come with you, right? Are you guys from the Star Cult..."

Having just accepted this terrifyingly powerful "cheap daughter," Xing Yaoyan didn't dare to ask all her questions directly. She could only tentatively steer the conversation toward the relevant topics.

Taotie's little mouth curled slightly.

"Yeah, yeah, he came with me. But I'm not with him. I just came here to eat and will leave after I'm done. Whether he lives or dies has nothing to do with me."

"By the way, Mom Xing Yaoyan, those two you mentioned should be your friends, right? I'll lift the spatial lockdown now and pull them out by force."

The little girl lightly raised her hand, and a golden light flashed deep in her eyes.

In the next moment, familiar fluctuations of spiritual power came from a certain spot in the room.

Xing Yaoyan finally realized: no wonder she hadn't felt much of the spiritual power or spatial fluctuations from the boy using his Superpower earlier.

It had been locked down by Taotie...

Wait, doesn't this mean she has the ability to break Qian Mo's Superpower?

In the next moment, Xing Yaoyan seemed to suddenly understand something.

Looking at the cheap daughter before her who exuded a powerful aura, she felt a sense of relief.

It seemed she really didn't have any killing intent toward Qian Mo and the other...

"By the way, Taotie!"

The little girl turned her head and looked at her in confusion.

"In front of others in the future, call me Sister Xing Yan, okay..."

"No."

A feeling of awkwardness and helplessness arose in the young woman's heart.

"If I'm going to call you anything, it has to be Mom Xing Yan. Mom and Sister are two different identities, I know that!"

"Fine, fine, fine! 'Mom Xing Yan' it is!"

Xing Yaoyan quickly agreed.

She really wasn't ready to face Qian Mo with her true identity yet. Although she felt her cover would be blown sooner or later, she would delay it as long as she could...

Seeing the young woman nod, Taotie began to circulate her massive power again.

In the next moment, she reached out her hand like a claw and swiped at a patch of space. A blue spatial rift was actually torn open by her just like that.

At this time, a panicked voice came from the other side of the spatial rift.

"Xiao! Didn't you say we would definitely not be caught here?!"